Name details

Sanford Valley

Sanford Valley (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Sanford Valley  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 114311

Feature type: Valley (2g)

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

A small valley in Olympus Range, trending north between Nottage Ridge to the west and McCelland Ridge to the east, opening up to above Wright Valley. Feature shown on: NZ AntTopo50-ME09

Named For

Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) (1997) after Leroy L. Sanford, topographic engineer, a member of the 1971-72 U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) field party that established a network of horizontal and vertical control for compilation of eight 1:50,000 scale maps of the area of McMurdo Dry Valleys bounded by 160° and 164° and 77°15' and 77°45'S.

Location

Latitude:
77° 27' 01.1" S
-77.45030°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
162° 08' 08.7" E
162.13575°
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Altitude:
1206 m
Unknown precision

Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
Reference Elevation Model of Antarctica, Howat et al. 2018
Source Identifier:
REMA 8m tile 17_35 release 1.1
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
7-Oct-1998

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